Allegory of Spring, or the Young Gardeners

Edmond de Goncourt, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint, Dessiné et Gravé d'Antoine Watteau (Paris, 1875), no. 477.

Karl Theodor Parker and Jacques Mathey, Antoine Watteau, Catalogue Complet de son Oeuvre Dessiné I (Paris, 1957), p. 17, no. 94, fig 94.

sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, May 27, 1949, lot 5 (as by Claude Gillot). Sold by Otto Wertheimer (1878-1972), Paris, to the Art Institute, 1955.

Karl Theodor Parker, The Drawings of Antoine Watteau (London, 1931), pp. 12 and 25.

sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 17-18, 1925, lot 118 to Jules Strauss (1861-1943), Paris [annotated sales catalogue]

Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721: Catalogue Raisonné des Dessins (Milan, 1996), no. 11 (ill.).

Margaret Morgan Grasselli, "Eighteen Drawings by Watteau: A Chronological Study," Master Drawings, 31 (1993), pp. 104, 106, and 126.

Marianne Roland-Michel, "Watteau et les Figures de Differents Caractères," Watteau: Le Peintre, son Temps et sa Légende (Paris, 1987), p. 120.

Margaret Morgan Grasselli, The Drawings of Watteau (Cambridge, 1987), pp. 39, and 125-128, no. 45, fig. 20.

Marianne Roland-Michel, Watteau (Paris, 1984), p. 20, 125, fig. 5.

Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Watteau," June-September 1984, cat. 13 (ill.); traveled to Paris, Galerie Nationales de Grand Palais, October 1984-January 1985; Berlin, Charlottenburg Chateau, February-May 1985.

Frankfurt-am-Main, Stadtische Galerie, "Antoine Watteau," 1982, p. 40, cat. Cb2.

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), no. 2G3.

Martin P. Eidelberg, Watteau's Drawings, Their Use and Significance (New York, 1977), pp. 208-210, 212, and 215, fig. 171.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, pp. 40-41, cat. 27 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 15 (ill.), as "Allegory of Gardening."

Hugh Edwards, "Two Drawings by Antoine Watteau," The Art Institute Museum Studies (1966), p. 9.

Martin P. Eidelberg, "Cycle of the Four Seasons by the Young Watteau," Art Quarterly, 29 (1966), pp. 269-276, fig. 5.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 41, as "Spring."

Jacques Mathey, "Drawings by Watteau and Gillot," The Burlington Magazine (August 1960), pp. 357-358.